Mark Horne

First, obviously, legalize it (i.e. Abortion).
Second, wait to some lone nutcase or fringe group goes off and kills someone in the name of vengeance.
Third, attack everyone who thinks murder should be illegal for being to blame for the nutcase simply for calling murder by the name of murder.
Just for the record, Jesus opposed the zealots [...]

I just listened to an interview with Roderick Long (haven’t read the article yet), but I wasn’t super impressed.  He argues that if the state does not produce law and order that this provides an incentive for entrepreneurs in the private sector to find ways to produce these things.  Well, duh, they do.  They invent [...]

If you were told you were only permitted to get bread, or shoes, or any other product from one and only one company, would it alleviate your concerns if you were permitted to vote for a change in the President of the company every four years?

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A local pastor and his wife claim they were interrogated by a San Diego County official, who then threatened them with escalating fines if they continued to hold Bible studies in their home, 10News reported.
Attorney Dean Broyles of The Western Center For Law & Policy was shocked with what happened to the pastor and his [...]

Here’s my aid to young readers needing help with the cultural reference irony.
But I’m not going to blog about my frustration with local talk radio showing that we all think that every single horrible tragedy that ever happened could have been prevented with the right legislation and that such legislation must be immediately passed to [...]

At one time, it seemed taken for granted that it was preferable to die than suffer or do certain things. Even “Mutually Assured Destruction” was justified this way because “better dead than red.”
But now we are all in a new age. Anything that could possibly slow our ability to gain victory, or make [...]

The math is easy. If you allow investors to start new businesses and employ people you will have more incomes to tax. You will make more revenue marginally taxing the middle class than heavily taxing the upper class. If you heavily tax the rich you create incentives for them to do less [...]

Passage: Luke 13.10-17 (ESV Bible Online).
I just heard a great sermon on this (and the passage that follows) and it got me thinking.
Churches produce disabling spirits.  Corruption, distortion, and all sorts of other problems creep into a tradition to the point that the church becomes a transmission mechanism for these problems along with the gospel.  [...]

YouTube – Night Run II.

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Pretty amazing interviews, especially if you listen to them back to back in chronological order:

October 13th, 2008 (Listen especially to the material fourteen minutes into the interview)
March 27th, 2009

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This past weekend, my husband and I treated ourselves (actually, admission was free) to SLU’s Museum of Contemporary Religious Art’s (MOCRA) “Good Friday” exhibit. The exhibit closed Sunday, May 17.
I am a great art admirer. I say “admirer,” not “lover,” because the latter implies knowledge, and I cannot lay claim to much [...]

“I understand that there is anger here, but the rules have to be enforced.”
via globeandmail.com: Police justify cuffing commuter.
No, they don’t.
In fact, “the rules” are really just an excuse for breaking rules.  Do you want to know what the real rules are? You already know them, unless you hold public office somewhere.

Mind your own business.
Don’t [...]

Not from the GOP. From a “moderate” talk show host on Good Morning America. The Party, we were advised in response Steele’s (sp?) speech, should not be an ideological platform. It should be about only one thing: winning elections.
Well, for all the criticism of the Bush/Cheney machine, the bottom line is that [...]

The “will to power” is supposedly a basic evil drive in human affairs–one that often explains the expansion of the state over society.
But what happens when we see factions preferring defeat and loss of power to doing what is necessary to win? How do we explain John McCain or the present Republican Party?
It is [...]

“We cannot succeed in Afghanistan or anywhere else, but let’s talk specifically about Afghanistan, by killing Afghan civilians,” Admiral Mullen said, adding that “we can’t keep going through incidents like this and expect the strategy to work.”
At the same time, Admiral Mullen said, “we can’t tie our troops’ hands behind their backs.”
via Joint Chiefs Chairman [...]

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Mark Horne » Revolutionizing my understanding of the American colonial resistance (please pardon the pun).
What I wonder is this: Did the precedent set by resistance growing into revolution mean that rulers would no longer tolerate resistance?  Now, instead of hoping to settle and compromise, resistance might end in complete overthrow.  Is this the [...]

Sometimes an old song you liked by haven heard in many years comes up on some radio station you happen to be listening to, and you bask in nostalgia. Some times this happens, and you cringe and wish you could travel back in time and beat the tar out of your younger idiot self.
I [...]

YouTube – “I LOST MY PENSION” Eggs Thrown @ Bank CEO Irish AIB Bank.

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YouTube – I Heart You Online.

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Many readers of the Bible read the whole Bible through the lens of the gospel they believe and this is what that gospel looks like:

God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life.
But you have a sin problem that separates you from God.
The good news is that Jesus came to die [...]